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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Oct. 9, 1964
62nd Year, No.16
NEW GYMNASIUM—An architect's sketch shows the one-million dollar Robinson physical education building which will replace Old Robinson Gymnasium, built in 1906. Construction will begin in one month on the site located east
of Allen Field House and south of Summerfield Hall. Old Robinson Gymnasium and Haworth Hall will be razed to provide space for a major classroom building. Completion date is tentatively summer, 1966.
Two Lawrence Firms Given Contract on KU Gymnasium
Contracts totaling $930,557 for the construction of the first phase of the new physical education building at the University of Kansas are in the process of being awarded to the B. A. Green Construction Co. of Lawrence and to Norris Brothers, Inc., of Lawrence, Keith Lawton, Vice Chancellor of Operations, announced today.
ternates, the general contract will be awarded to the B. A. Green Co. and the electrical and mechanical (plumbing, heating, and cooling) contracts to Norris Brothers. Construction is expected to begin on a site south of Summerfield Hall and east of Allen Field House in approximately one month; and will be completed in the summer of 1966. A total of $1 million was made
On the basis of low bids and al-
United Fund Drive Opens Today at KU
Aiming at a goal of $11,450, the University Division of the United Fund Drive of Lawrence begins today seeking contributions from KU faculty, staff and administrative employs.
available by the 1964 Kansas Legislature for the construction of the facility.
Money from the drive is used to support twelve organizations in the city, ranging from the Red Cross, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to the Kansas Children's Service League.
The KU goal is based on a proportional distribution of the $78,000 goal set for Lawrence, Robert Billings, chairman of the UF drive and director of Aids and Awards, said.
"WE WANT TO encourage everyone to dig deep in his pockets for this drive," Billings said. "This is the only way that many of these organizations receive financial support, so
it is extremely important that everyone gives to his fullest extent."
Billings said the United Fund campaign will be the only solicitation made for these organizations since they do not run individual campaigns.
The formal campaigns will end Oct. 31, Billings said, whether or not the city-wide goal of $78,000 is reached. Contributions will be accepted after that date, however, he said.
No solicitation will be made of KU students, Billings said, as the University division of the drive is primarily aimed at faculty and staff members as residents of Lawrence.
Chairmen of the University division drive are Maurice Barker, director of the Greater University Fund of the Endowment Association, and William A. Conboy, professor of speech and drama.
The new physical education building will house two large gymnasiums, each with two regulation-size basketball courts; offices for the chairman of the physical education department, five men faculty members, and four women faculty members; staff locker; shower; and work rooms; men's and women's shower and locker rooms, six classrooms, a study room, a mechanical equipment room, a weight-lifting room, two exercise gymnasiums, men's and women's intramural offices, and three handball courts.
Contracts will not include the construction of a $400,000-$450,000 natatorium building with swimming pool planned as a separate facility attached to the gymnasium on the south. University officials are hopeful, Lawton said, that the natatorium will be provided and completed by the time the physical education building is ready, either through private gifts or legislative appropriations.
The natatorium, which was bid as an alternate, includes plans for a T-shaped pool 75-feet 1-inch wide, additional men's and women's locker rooms, concrete seating for 694 spectators, a viewing window underwater for use by physical education instructors, and, opening off the natatorium through wide glass doors a concrete terrace 95-feet long and 60-feet wide southeast of the building.
Senior Day Lacks Tradition
By Susan Hartley
Our parents and grandparents may have meant well when they told us how much wilder we are today than they were at our age, but they really didn't mean it, when it comes to senior day activities, that is.
After combing through some back files for several hours, it is quite apparent that festivities accompanying senior day have calmed down quite a bit.
Last year we even did away with the traditional senior calendar queen, who had graced the covers of senior calendars as far back as our files go. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, although objecting to the break of tradition, crowded the girls off of their place on the cover. Prior to this, a girl was selected by ballot from a
Another tradition now lost is that of smoking a peace pipe at the senior breakfast "to erase the memories of bygone feuds" just before graduation.
field of candidates nominated from each women's living group.
The records show that the pipe was smoked as far back as 1893, but no one knows how the practice was started.
Prof. Leon N. Flint, an 1897 graduate after whom Flint Hall was named, said in an article published in the University Daily Kansan in 1946 that it was a tradition long before he smoked it at his senior breakfast.
"It wasn't a very sanitary affair in those days," he was quoted as saying. "There was just one pipe, about
two and one-half feet long, and everybody puffed on it."
Throughout the years, the seniors have had football games, co-ed softball games, and tug-of-wars, but none can compare to the very first senior day back in 1891. The juniors and freshmen teamed up against the sophomores and the seniors on this memorable day and raised the flags
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Teaching Lures Young Lawyers
By Susan Tichacek
The grandson of the late Dr. Frank Strong, former Chancellor of KU, is one of two new professors who joined the faculty of the KU Law School this year.
John Strong and Lawrence Blades both left their law practice to become professors at KU.
Lawrence Blades
"I came here because it was KU—I'm not sure I would have gone into the teaching profession some where else," Prof. Strong said.
Family tradition was one of the main reasons Prof. Strong came to KU.
"Also Dean Logan is in the process of creating a new, flexible type of curriculum which offers many opportunities," he said.
PROF. STRONG IS THE grandson of the late Dr. Frank Strong who was Chancellor of KU from 1902-1920.
After acting as chancellor for 18 years, Dr. Strong was a professor in the Law School.
Prof. Strong, "my father is the Dean of the Law School at Ohio State and my father-in-law was one of my previous law professors at Illinois University—obviously I had a little predisposition."
"It runs in the family," said
Prof. Strong, originally from Iowa City, Iowa, attended Yale University and received his law degree from Illinois University.
OTHER THAN HIS hobbies of playing a bassoon, playing chess and woodcarving, Prof. Strong is "just getting adapted to being a father—if you ever get adapted," he laughed. He has a one-month-old son.
Before joining the KU faculty, Prof. Strong practiced law for two years with a law firm in Decatur, Ill. His field of interest was civil procedure.
Leaving his law practice to become a professor, Prof. Strong said, "It (the teaching profession) gives you a sense of completeness in what you are doing. When you have a case, you look into the law just pertaining to the needs of the client but you don't have time to really study law. When you are a professor you never get through in law teaching like you get through a case. You can always try to improve your methods next year."
Graduating from the Michigan the other new professor who is teaching criminal law this fall.
Graduating from the Michigan Law School, Lawrence Blades is
Before entering law school, Prof. Blades went to Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. After graduation, he went into general practice with a large law firm in Los Angeles and later a smaller firm in Kansas City.
When asked why he became an assistant professor instead of practicing law, he replied, "I had a great respect for teachers in my law school and I like the idea of being more independent than you can be in private practice. I also think living in a college atmosphere is enjoyable."
KU MADE AN impression on Prof. Blades 10 years ago when he spent a afternoon on campus. At the time he was stationed at Fort Riley. "The physical layout really impressed me," he said, "it seemed to be what I always thought a Midwest college should be like.
John Strong
"I decided to come here to teach because I began to hear about what is being attempted to be accomplished at the KU Law School," Prof. Blades said.
"The striving to make this a great law school creates a dynamic situation which carries its own stimulation and attraction for me," he said.
Being the father of three children, Prof. Blades is kept busy taking his six-year-old son to high school football games as well as the KU games. Although being very interested in sports, he also has a number of hobbies.